by Saval Pathak
HTML5 Standards
HTML5 is the latest version of HTML. It is designed to expedite the development of dynamic applications, and deliver rich content without the need for additional plug-ins. This new version is able to deliver everything from animation, graphics, audio, video, and can even be used to build complicated web applications. Most importantly, HTML5 is cross-platform; it is designed to work whether you are using a Mac, PC, Tablet, Smartphone, or Smart TV.
HTML5 is great because it’s versatile — it’s not specific to a single use case. It is also used for developing games, and calls for a solid understanding of JavaScript for writing quality HTML5 code.
Whenever presented with a HTML5 project, Perficient focuses on gathering complete requirements about the project from a functional point of view, so that we can determine the project level. We prefer to use some standard framework, or MVC structure code.
We categorize project levels as shown below, so we may better understand and implement them:
- Level 1 – HTML5 Project having basic JavaScript functionality.
- Level 2 – HTML5 Project having some standard structure.
- Level 3 – HTML5 project having advance level JavaScript functionality where we need to use MVC frameworks or MVC core programming.
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There are many new interesting and exciting features in HTML5. We have already utilized Semantic HTML, Web Storage, Canvas, Drag and Drop, and JSON storage in our projects, and can implement all available HTML5 features across all supported web browsers. We always keep in mind cross-browser issues and solve for the best experience. You can get more details about HTML5 features here: http://diveintohtml5.info/detect.html
We are using all of the new HTML5 elements called Semantic Elements in our projects. A semantic element clearly describes its meaning to both the browser and the developer. This best-practice of authoring HTML markup allows us to make our code more standard and therefore: future-proof.
Canvas is one of the most attractive features of HTML5, and we are currently utilizing Fabric JS Framework for canvas in our projects. We can implement canvas in an ideal way using core JavaScript. We work on advance-level JavaScript with canvas so that we can incorporate animation and interactivity.
We will be adding frameworks like Angular JS, Backbone JS and Ember JS to our upcoming HTML5 projects. We are currently working on sample applications using: Angular JS, Backbone JS, Ember JS (for both offline and online applications). Frameworks make coding easy, minimize it, and provide a standard way to implement new things to an exacting HTML5 standard.
- Angular JS: Angular JS is an open source JavaScript framework maintained by Google that assists with running single-page applications. Its goal is to augment web-based applications with model-view-controller (MVC) capability, in an effort to make development easier. HTML is great for declaring static documents, but it falters when we try to use it for declaring dynamic views in web-applications. Angular JS lets you extend HTML vocabulary for your application. The resulting environment is extraordinarily expressive, readable, and quick to develop.Visit Angular JS to learn more.
- Backbone JS: Backbone.js is a JavaScript library with a restful JSON interface and is based on the model-view-presenter (MVP) application design paradigm. Backbone is known for being lightweight, as its only dependency is on one JavaScript library. It is designed for developing single-page web applications and for keeping various parts of web applications (e.g. multiple clients and server) synchronized.Visit Backbone JS to learn more.
- Ember JS: Ember.js is an open-source client-side JavaScript web application framework based on the model-view-controller (MVC) software architectural pattern. It allows developers to create scalable single-page applications by incorporating common idioms and best practices into a framework that provides a rich object model, declarative two-way data binding, computed properties, and automatically-updating templates.Visit Ember JS to learn more.
We are prepared to utilize these frameworks as our customers’ growing demands dictate. A widely used framework has big security implementations and a big advantage is the community behind it. You can find some of the HTML5 frameworks HERE.
As I mentioned above, at Perficient, we prefer to use MVC JavaScript so that we can follow standard code structure to create, build and innovate. We work on module based programming and implement all HTML5 features in a way such that they can be reusable. Our team continually grows its experience of using JSON and Ajax in our projects. We are working to speed up the page load time by minimizing the http request, optimizing images and by implementing standard practices. Using JSON and Ajax with HTML5, we really take our web site performance to a higher level. You can find some of important techniques for improving web site performance HERE.
